Saturday, January 3, 2015

National Society of Film Critics Awards

As always, the National Society goes its own way, and this year is no different with the pick of Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language, which narrowly beat out the critical favorite Boyhood. The other categories were not too surprising. Check out the full list and vote tallies below:

Best Picture 
*1. Goodbye to Language - 25
2. Boyhood - 24
3. (TIE) Birdman - 10 and Mr. Turner - 10

Best Director
*1. Richard Linklater "Boyhood" - 36
2. Jean-Luc Godard "Goodbye to Language" - 17
3. Mike Leigh "Mr. Turner" - 12

Best Non-Fiction Film
*1. Citizenfour - 56
2. National Gallery -19
3. The Overnighters - 17

Best Screenplay
*1. Wes Anderson "The Grand Budapest Hotel" - 24
2. Paul Thomas Anderson "Inherent Vice" and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo "Birdman" - 15

Best Cinematography
*1. Dick Pope "Mr. Turner" - 33
2. Darius Khondji "The Immigrant" - 27
3. Fabrice Aragno "Goodbye to Language" - 9

Best Actor
*1.Timothy Spall "Mr. Turner" - 31
2. Tom Hardy "Locke" - 10
3. (TIE) Joaquin Phoenix "Inherent Vice"  and Ralph Fiennes "The Grand Budapest Hotel" - 9

Best Actress
*1. Marion Cotillard "The Immigrant" and "Two Days, One Night" - 80
2. Julianne Moore "Still Alice" - 35
3. Scarlett Johansson "Lucy" and "Under the Skin" - 21

Best Supporting Actor 
*1. J.K. Simmons "Whiplash" - 24
2. Mark Ruffalo"Foxcatcher" -  21
3. Edward Norton "Birdman" - 16

Best Supporting Actress
*1. Patricia Arquette "Boyhood" - 26
2. Agata Kulesza "Ida" - 18
3. Rene Russo "Nightcrawler" - 9

FILM HERITAGE AWARD
1. To Ron Magliozzi, associate curator, and Peter Williamson, film conservation manager, of the Museum of Modern Art, for identifying and assembling the earliest surviving footage of what would have been the feature film to star a black cast, the 1913 “Lime Kiln Field Day” starring Bert Williams.

2. To Ron Hutchinson, co-founder and director of The Vitaphone Project, which since 1991 has collected and restored countless original soundtrack discs for early sound short films and features, including the recent Warner Bros. restoration of William A. Seiter’s 1929 “Why Be Good?”

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